The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-31

Industrial and misunderstanding Notes
Kingan & Co. are now killing 1000 hogs per
day, and expect to continue siaughterlng ABOUT
that number through june
The Parke County Coal Company has pur-
chased a Dean steam pump, made OF brass,
weighing over one thousand pounds.
Piel e. Co. have made contract for sinking
well for gas their starch works. The Work
Will be commenced in about ten days.
Parties nave purchased ground the West
Side of Nicholas McCarty which to open
lum ber-yard and erect planing7mlll
Chandler & Taylor yesterday shipped 4 fifty
horse power engine and boiler to Nebraska, and
nifty horse power engine to st Louis party.
Dean Brothers yesterday received orders for
tour large steam pumps, to go into mining dis
trlcts. One goes to Glenroy, o.; two to Jack
SOD, o., and one to Brazil.
Budd e Co. have within the last three weeks.
placed In their storage houses TO- 200 dozen
eggs, the largest holding ever put up at one time
at this shipping point.
The Indianapolis Stockyards Company will
next month commence the erection of addi-
tlona shed of 200 pens, which will give them
total of 1000 pens under cover, dry, and con-
venlent to feed and water stock
The Indianapolis foundry has been awarded
contract to furnish a lot of castings for one of
the roads running out of Chicago to the North
west, and if pleased with this job. the company
Will give them further large contracts.
There are ten moro brick yards in operation
in and about Indianapolis than one year ago,
and the twenty-five old yards are working
double the force they did last year. And still
building is delayed here for want of brick.
Indianapolis lumber dealers again doing
good deal in the way of shipments to outside
towns. Rates have been more satisfactorily adj
1usted, and our dealers are enabled TO compete
TO advantage with other lumber-shpping points.
Bybee e. Pratt have laid out west-side addi-
ton on the grounds they purchased of Nicholas
McCarty. and they will sell lots to their
ployes such terms and at prices which will
enable them in due time TO secure homes of
their own.
The Jenney electric light, an Indianapolis
terprise, is seemingly better appreciated abroad
than at home Jenney electric light plants are
being put up in northern Michigan, in Missouri
and In Texas, at a number of important cities
and towns, and Indianapolis machine shops are
furnishing the engines to run them.
The improvements to the Indianapolis hom-
my mills, owned and operated by Bates & Co.,
are nearing completion. and they will resume
operations in full by the middle of next month.
when these improvements are completed lnGl-
annapolis will have two of the most modern and
extensive hominy mills in this country.
Haugh, Ketcham 81 Co., who were some
weeks ago awarded the contract to furnish the
iron-work for the first story of q fire proof hotel
in process of erection at Kansas City, were last
week given the contract to furnish the iron
work for the entire building, which is to be six
stories high About 400 tons of iron will be
used in the building
The Indianapolis horse market is becoming
more active. Eastern buyers are returning in
considerable numbers and shipments begin to
increase. All classes of horses in good de-
mand, from the plug horse. FER street-cars, to
tie fine carriage horse. The burning up of
couple of thousand of street-car horses within
the last week has created great demand.
A. B. Gates e Go. have decided to erect in the
of their present establishment another
building eighty-five feet long by thrty-f five feet
wide. three stories high. This will enable the
house to greatly increase their facilities for
manufacturing baking powder and for roasting
coffees- This house to-day ship carload of
their baking powder to Sacramento and one into
New England.